My 78 year old momma is four feet, ten inches tall, very arthritic, has had a knee replacement and survived cancer. But she would dropkick your bottom across the church parking lot if you used that language in front of her. Watch your mouth. Or in the case of this forum, your fingers.

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.

Phew, I'm SO relieved old OC.net is back. I've been posting on a Protestant forum, filled mostly with hardcore Reformed Baptists, in the interrim. I'm worn out. I'm glad to be back in Babylon with my fellow Mary-worshipping cannibalistic pagans!

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.

My mother-in-law is convinced (among other things) that CFL bulbs are more dangerous than asbestos and this is all just some sort of ploy to get us to submit to the Anti-Christ (aka President Obama) or some other such nonsense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

"This type of stuff happens often...but the side of the story is barely heard, let alone told." I don't see these scientists get stoned for rejected the Ida ancestry hypothesis as you seem to put it. They make a good case, it becomes heard. If they had made a bad case, it would have become turd.

[...]I'm not an eight year old boy so I'm not an expert on dinosaurs, but as I understand it...

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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

If I don't understand what my Mother is speaking to me, then how will I have a relationship with her?

But you didn't understand what your own mother was saying as she held you as a babe in her arms and nursed you and sang to you....Yet you still had a relationship with her....and gradually, you learned to speak your mothers language by listening to her and spending time with her and wanting to express yourself to her.

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Vain existence can never exist, for "unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." (Psalm 127)

If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.

Ok, I will pray for forgiveness. In these times, when Yanukovich is selling the country to Russia and Communists are erected Stalin monuments, it is hard to remain faithful to Ukraine. But maybe, you can come back when Yulia Timoshenko will be president, just like Saint Peter came back after the ressurection.

God bless Ukraine and the holy city of Kyiv. May all Saints of Pecherska Lavra be with you.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

Also from Adherents, my favorite section: super-heroes grouped by faith.

Black Widow Fireball Confessor Geo-Force Elektra Mindsinger Terra

Unfortunately, we just got two anti-heroines (Elektra and Black Widow) who don't even mention this aspect of their origins and a couple of villains! Elektra even apostated to the ninja religion of the sect known as "The Hand".Blame the Cold War, I suppose.

In case you may be wondering, the site claims that Superman's parents on Earth (Johnantan and Marta Kent) were Methodists and he was raised as such. Batman's parent were a mixed marriage between an Episcopalian and a Roman-Catholic and at least while his parents were alive we can suppose he was taken to church with them. Daredevil is Roman Catholic, and Spiderman seems to be a non-denominational Protestant.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

I implore you, as the moderator of this sub-forum, to take a step back and spend a day in reflection on how both of you are presenting yourselves to this website and to the world at large. This is obviously a very deep-seated argument you two are having with one another out in public. Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, please take a moment to remember that your words here on the internet are forever and, thanks to the way humanity looks at people nowadays, will be indicative of both your reputations, for better or for worse.

This constant bickering between you two often goes past the issue being discussed. Please put an end to it, at least in this thread.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Dear ChristiansHis Holynes metropolitan John Tomas of Scandinavia have made the resolution,to Ban this Forum for all who belong to the Church of Christ.These forums/debates undermines the authority of the Institution of the Church of Yeshua ben Yosef the Son of God and bring only questioning "in absurdum Maximus" both of the servants of God and the clean teachings of Christ,wich his Church must teach the faithful.

This forum have shown this not only when His Holynes tryed to reach faithful and ask for their prayers for the Metropolitat but all also over the forum.

This was the words of Our Holy Father,a disciple of christ++Metropolitan John Tomas 1 of ScandinaviaAntiokinska Apostoliska Katolska Ortodoxa KyrkanSkandinavisk oberoende Metrolopitatet/Father.Michael,Secretary,spokesman of the see

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

it seems that every man in my parish has either a beard or a very large mustache which the little kids mistake for some furry dead thing. it seems like this is a trend in Orthodoxy.

my question is, is every Orthodox man obligated to wear a beard? are we teenagers expected too? I hate shaving, but I hate looking like a greasy werewolf every three weeks.

Those not able to grow a beard are required to buy and wear a fake one . At my parish, at least.They sell those beards at some monasteries, made of the surplus facial hair of monks, when they shear them, on the third week of Lent.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

I wonder if any Bishop has ever used economia to allow a bear into Church? Perhaps an especially pius bear? Maybe Whinnie the Pooh? Perhaps Yogi Bear? The Lord knows both of them could use the Church, what with their gluttony.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

To be a member of either church you must accept the ENTIRE faith of said church which is explained in their doctrines and dogmas. You can't just pick and choose what you want and be a legimate member of either church. That is Protestantism. And its certainly shows the illegmaticy of some of those who practice the Orthodox ritual and customs and claim they are one with Rome while not adhering to all the papal doctrines.

I accept the fact and agree that in order to be a member of either church you must accept the ENTIRE faith of said church and can't just pick and choose what I want. But my understanding from Pope Pius X's "nec plus, nec minus, nec aliter" statement is that the doctrines and dogmas of the Catholic Church do not forbid me from living and practicing the daily life of a Russian Orthodox by attending the liturgy, venerating icons, and following the calendar and prayer life just as members of the Russian Orthodox do. My guess is that the Russian Orthodox Church also does not forbid me from the doing so. Or does it?

No, the Orthodox Church does not have a ban on live-action roleplaying... it's just kind of lame.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Imagine if Met. Hilarion did allow himself to have been elected the Met. for the OCA, when he was asked to allow his name to be placed on the ballot.

I think Metropolitan Hilarion is probably already a serious contender to be Patriarch of Moscow after Patriarch Kirill... He currently holds the position +Kirill held, and is extremely active in relations with other Orthodox Churches, and also dialogue with non-Orthodox.While it obviously wouldn't be official, I think of Metropolitan Hilarion as being "Patriarch in training", if you forgive my Star Wars lingo, he'd be the Jedi Knight who is preparing to become a Jedi Master.(all due respect to his holiness Metropolitan Hilarion, I just got an idea to put his and Obi-Wan's images next to each other, but I'll keep it to myself, as I don't want to be disrespectful)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.